eTwinning Prizes 2011 - Evaluation and Timeline

General criteria

Evaluators will consider the following criteria:

• Pedagogical Innovation and Creativity:  How aspects of the project can be considered more innovative and creative regarding content and objectives, the approach, activities and methodology, final products, dissemination and publication.


• Curricular Integration: How the project was integrated in the existing curriculum.


• Collaboration Between Partner Schools: How teachers and pupils between schools communicate and work together throughout the project (i.e., not simply sharing outcomes but actively working together).


• Creative Use of ICT: How to get beyond emailing; how the project made use of ICT tools creatively.


• Sustainability and Transferability: How to guarantee that the project will last, involving the whole school and be able to share benefits with others


• Results and Benefits: What came out of the project as well as why your project deserves to be awarded.

Evaluation process and timeline

 
29 November 2010: Final submissions received
eTwinners submit applications on the eTwinning Portal.

10 January 2011: Round 1 by national panels – finalised
Each National Support Service evaluates applications in their respective countries to create a first shortlist which covers projects from all thirty-two eTwinning countries.
 
21 January 2011: Round 2 by European panels – finalised
The first shortlist is submitted to international panels of two to three experts nominated by National Support Services. In this round, the experts evaluate entries from other countries. Each panel selects three to five projects to come up with a final shortlist.

26 January 2011: Round 3 by the grand jury – finalised
The shortlist of best entries is submitted to a final grand jury of experts composed of representatives from the European Commission, the Central Support Service and external experts.  Each member of the jury first views the shortlisted entries on their own before the panel meets in person and selects two top projects for each category as the finalists.

Finalists (age categories) and winners (special categories) are notified and the results are published on the eTwinning Portal.

31 March 2011: eTwinning Prize-giving Ceremony
Age categories: Two representatives from each finalist project are invited to attend the prize-giving ceremony, which will take place in Budapest, Hungary. The winners and runners-up are then announced at this time in conjunction with the annual eTwinning Conference 2011.

Special categories: Two representatives from each winning project are invited to attend the prize-giving ceremony in Budapest.

Web Editor: Christina Crawley Published: 02.09.2008 Last changed: 20.10.2010